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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. v

ISAAC P. TURNER, OF TROY, ASSIGNOR TO JAMES K. I?. PINE, OF LANSINGBURG, NEW YORK.

` SPECIFICATION forming part.V of Letters Patent No. 295,958, dated .April l, 1884.

Appncatiun inea August 26,1881. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, IsAAe l). TURNER, of the city of Troy, county of Rensselaer, and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cuff-Boxes, of which which, when opened, may be used to displayV the cuffs to advantage. l

My invention consists in constructing Vand combining a boircover and tray so as to form a cuffbox, with the cover constructed to have a greater depth than the tray, and being contracted on its inner side and nearest its inclosed top by an additional thickness of board, so that the edge of the latter will support the tray and form a seat for it, and thus constructed the cover may be turned over and the tray and cuffs placed in the cover for displaying the cuffs, and when to be packed for shipment the tray and `cuffs are taken from the cover, and the latter passed down over them. By this means of construction, when cuff-boxes are opened andplaced in show windows and cases for display, the two parts of box are necessarily kept together in one place without loss ofroom, and are easily put together for transportation.

In the accompanying drawings there are four illustrations designating my invention and its parts, like letters indicating like parts in all of the figures.

Figure l illustrates in perspective the cuffbox with the cover` placed over the cuff-tray and as arranged for transportation. Fig. 2

Y represents in perspective the cover removed from the tray' and turned over, illustrating the manner of forming a stop or rest for the cufftray within the interior of the cover by means of a thickness of cardboard placed on the inner side of the cover nearest its closed top, and at a distance from the open bottom ofthe cover equal to the depth of the tray. Fig. 3

`illustrates in perspective the cuff-tray inserted The several parts of the cuff-box thus illustrated are designated by letters of reference, and their connected combination described as follows: e

The letter B denotes the cover, which is made larger than the tray C', to receive the latter 6o and to pass over it, and the cover B is also made deeper than the tray C, so as to inclose the cuffs, which, when placed in the tray, will project upwardly beyond the partition and upper edges of the tray.

Upon the inner side of the cover B, and at a distance from its open bottom equal to the depth of the tray C, there is made the stop or rest S, formed by means of a thickness of cardboard attached to the inner side of the cover at the point designated, with sufficient distance between this stop S and the top of the cover B to leave room for that portion of the cuffs which projects above the edge of the tray when placed therein. The stop S arrests the descent of the cuff-tray when inserted in 5the cover, as shown in'Fig. 3 and keeps the tray in place when the-cover is placed over the tray, as shown in Fig. l. The tray C is divided into two compartments, A A, by means of the par- 8o tition I?, into which compartments the cuffs are placed. As curled up, the cuffs project above theedge of the cuff-tray C when placed in the compartments, and so as to be visible and easily seen, when the cufftray is in- 8 5 serted in the inverted cover, as shown in Fig.

3, and the cuff tray and cover by their construction as thus made are' kept together.

The letters'N N designate two recesses cut from the lower edge of the cover, to grasp the 9o tray when it is desired to remove the former.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

As a new article of manufacture, a cuff-box 9 5 composed ofthe cover B, having the side recesses, N, and stop S at a distance from its open bottom equal to the depth of the tray, and the tray C, of less vertical depth than the cover, the tray being adapt-ed to be inserted Ion in the cover inverted for displaying the cuffs placed therein above the edge of the tray, as shown and described.

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